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Simon Scott is a Actor American born on 21 september 1920
Simon Scott (September 21, 1920 - December 11, 1991) was an American character actor from Monterey Park, California. He was best known for his role as Arnold Slocum on Trapper John M.D. and as General Bronson on McHale's Navy.
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Birth name Daniel Scott Simon
Nationality USA
Birth 21 september 1920
Death 11 december 1991 (at 71 years)
Nationality USA
Birth 21 september 1920
Death 11 december 1991 (at 71 years)
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The Final Curtain (2002)
Genres Drama
Actors Peter O'Toole, Aidan Gillen, Adrian Lester, Julia Sawalha, Patrick Malahide, Ian McNeice
Roles TV Interviewer
Rating56%
Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
, 1h31Directed by Robert Aldrich
Origin USA
Genres Thriller
Themes Political films, Arme nucléaire
Actors William Hootkins, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Charles Durning, Paul Winfield, William Smith
Roles Gen. Phil Spencer - Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Rating66%
After escaping from a military prison, rogue Air Force General Lawrence Dell (Burt Lancaster) and accomplices Powell (Paul Winfield) and Garvas (Burt Young) infiltrate an ICBM complex and gain launch control over its nine nuclear missiles. They then make direct contact with the US government (avoiding any media attention) and make their demands: $10 million ransom, and that the President (Charles Durning) go on national television and make public the contents of a top-secret document.
Tail Gunner Joe (1977)
, 2h25Directed by Jud Taylor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Actors Peter Boyle, Burgess Meredith, John Forsythe, Robert F. Simon, Heather Menzies, Patricia Neal
Roles Robert Ten Broeck Stevens
Rating67%
The Hindenburg (1975)
, 1h45Directed by Robert Wise, Howard Kazanjian
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes La fin du monde, Transport films, Aviation films, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton, Roy Thinnes, Gig Young, Burgess Meredith
Roles Luftwaffe General
Rating62%
Kathie Rauch (Ruth Schudson), a psychic from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, sends a letter to the German Embassy in Washington, D.C. claiming the Hindenburg zeppelin will explode after flying over New York. In the meantime, Luftwaffe Colonel Franz Ritter (George C. Scott) boards with the intention of protecting the Hindenburg as various threats have been made to down the airship, which some see as a symbol of Nazi Germany.
, 1h12Directed by Jud Taylor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Glenn Ford, Bradford Dillman, David Soul, Guy Stockwell, Greg Mullavey, Kent Smith
Roles Col. Barnes
Rating46%
U.S. Air Force Colonel Pete Moore (Glenn Ford) is the commander of the Whitney Air Force Base Radar Test Group, which has been experiencing electrical difficulties aboard its aircraft. To find the problem, he sends a four-man crew on Flight 412, with Captain Bishop (David Soul) as commander. Shortly into the test, the Grumman Gulfstream II jet, a small twin-engine VIP transport, picks up three blips on radar. Subsequently, two fighters scramble to investigate and mysteriously disappear.
The Man (1972)
, 1h33Directed by Joseph Sargent
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors James Earl Jones, Martin Balsam, Burgess Meredith, Lew Ayres, William Windom, Barbara Rush
Roles Hugh Gaynor
Rating68%
President Fenton and the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives are killed while at a summit in Frankfurt, West Germany when the palace hosting the legation suffers a collapse. Vice President [technically President since the instant of Fenton's death] Noah Calvin, elderly and in very ill health, refuses to assume the office, pointing out that they'll need another replacement almost immediately.
Cold Turkey (1971)
, 1h39Directed by Robert Downey Sr., Norman Lear
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Dick Van Dyke, Bob Newhart, Paul Benedict, Helen Page Camp, Bob Elliott, Vincent Gardenia
Roles Mr. Kandiss
Rating65%
As part of a public relations and marketing strategy to compare the empathy of Big Tobacco to the nobility of the Nobel Peace Prize, advertising executive Merwin Wren (Bob Newhart) convinces the Valiant Tobacco Company to propose a challenge: a tax-free check for $25,000,000 (equal to $160 775 862 today) to any city or town in America that can stop smoking, or go cold turkey, for thirty days.
In Enemy Country (1968)
, 1h47Directed by Harry Keller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Themes Political films
Actors Anthony Franciosa, Anjanette Comer, Guy Stockwell, Paul Hubschmid, Tom Bell, Michael Constantine
Roles General Jomar
Rating56%
Pendant la seconde guerre mondiale, des espions américains faisant partie du Département d'État sont chargés de détruire un nouveau type de torpille dont le centre de recherche se trouve caché en France.
, 1h44Directed by Bernard Girard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors James Coburn, Camilla Sparv, Camilla Sparv, Aldo Ray, Nina Wayne, Robert Webber
Roles William Anderson
Rating59%
Con man Eli Kotch (James Coburn) charms his way into a parole by playing on the emotions of a pretty psychologist (Marian McCargo), but drops her at the first opportunity to move around the country, romancing women and then stealing their possessions, or those of their employers. He's made a down payment on the blueprints to a bank at Los Angeles International Airport, but needs to raise $85,000 to complete the purchase.
Strange Bedfellows (1965)
, 1h38Directed by Melvin Frank
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Gig Young, Terry-Thomas, Edward Judd, Alan Caillou
Roles Jim Slade (Divorce Lawyer) (uncredited)
Rating61%
A wealthy American (Hudson) and a bohemian Italian woman (Lollobrigida) meet in London, and impulsively marry. Then finding they have virtually nothing in common they separate. Seven years later, just days before the divorce is due to be finalized, they meet again and begin to rekindle the romance.
Father Goose (1964)
, 1h58Directed by Ralph Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard, Peter Forster, Richard Lupino, Simon Scott
Roles Captain of Submarine, USS Sailfin
Rating72%
While the Royal Australian Navy evacuates Salamaua in February 1942 ahead of a Japanese invasion, Commander Frank Houghton (Trevor Howard) coerces old friend, American beachcomber Walter Eckland (Cary Grant), into becoming a coast-watcher for the Allies. Houghton takes Eckland, who is uninterested in anything other than fishing and drinking, to deserted Matalava Island to watch for Japanese planes. Houghton rewards Eckland's sightings with directions to one of the whisky bottles hidden around the island, once coast-watchers on other islands confirm it. To ensure Eckland remains on duty Houghton's naval vessel "accidentally" hits his boat, leaving a large hole in its hull.
The Ugly American (1963)
, 1h55Directed by George Englund
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Marlon Brando, Sandra Church, Eiji Okada, Pat Hingle, Arthur Hill, Jocelyn Brando
Roles Johnson
Rating65%
The book is written as a series of interrelated vignettes. In one, a Burmese journalist says "For some reason, the [American] people I meet in my country are not the same as the ones I knew in the United States. A mysterious change seems to come over Americans when they go to a foreign land. They isolate themselves socially. They live pretentiously. They are loud and ostentatious."
Moon Pilot (1962)
, 1h38Directed by James Neilson, Joseph L. McEveety
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Comic science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Sur la Lune, Comedy science fiction films, Political films, Space opera, Children's films
Actors Tom Tryon, Edmond O'Brien, Brian Keith, Dany Saval, Tommy Kirk, Bob Sweeney
Roles Officier médical
Rating54%
Astronaut Capt. Richmond Talbot inadvertently volunteers to make the first manned flight around the moon. He is ordered to keep the upcoming moon flight a secret, even from his family. Due to the classified nature of the mission, he is placed under the watchful eye of several national security agencies.
The Couch (1962)
, 1h40Origin USA
Genres Drama, Horror
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Grant Williams, Shirley Knight, Onslow Stevens, Anne Helm, Simon Scott, John Alvin
Roles Lt. Kritzman
Rating61%
The Honeymoon Machine (1961)
, 1h27Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Steve McQueen, Brigid Bazlen, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Dean Jagger, Jack Weston
Roles Capt. Harvey Adam
Rating61%
Civilian scientist Jason Eldridge (Hutton) runs Magnetic Analyzer Computing Synchrotron (MACS), a vacuum-tube computer aboard the USS Elmira. He and his friend Lt. Ferguson Howard (McQueen) realize that, by using MACS to record a roulette table's spins over time, the computer can predict future results. Howard and LTJG Beauregard Gilliam (Mullaney) check into a Venice casino's hotel dressed as civilians with Eldridge, defying Admiral Fitch's (Jagger) order that naval officers on shore avoid the casino and wear uniforms. They plan to use signal lamps to communicate with a confederate manning MACS on the Elmira.